If the Gov falls the muslim brotherhood will take over as you said. They are the only ones with the power and they have a lot of popular support.

El-Baradei has no support and anyway is a pawn of the Iranian regime and received millions from them. Who would not last a day in all likelihood.

If Mubarak survives which I am praying he does even though he is a dictator (unfortunately there is no alternative) he will have to appoint Omar Suleiman as successor, there is no way Gamal would be accepted anymore. He already fled the country.

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I did not get into economic issues really in the article I focused on people skewing data on stock market returns.

I am very in favor of helping the middle class. IMO the GOP pretends to be for the rich and middle class and are in it for themselves, and the Dems pretend to be for the middle class and the poor and are in it for themselves.

The way it works in this country is if your rich you can support yourself and if you are poor you get lots of freebies, the lower middle class gets screwed on both fronts. This is more than a decades old problem

This is how I see it the GOP pretend to be for the middle class and the rich, the Dems pretend to be for the middle class and poor. But in reality both parties are in it for their own personal gain and whoever gives them their contributions.

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